Catholic Answers LIVE
Catholic Answers Live, hosted by Cy Kellett, is a daily, two-hour radio program dedicated to Catholic apologetics and evangelization. According to listener surveys, it is a runaway favorite on Catholic stations across America.
As a call-in program, Catholic Answers Live connects listeners to prominent leaders in the Church today—including scholars, nuns, priests, bishops, and cardinals—and touches on every aspect of our lives as Christians. You'll hear discussions on just about everything relating to the Church: doctrinal controversies, family concerns, social issues, evangelization, ethics…you name it!
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Most Recent Episodes
Questions Covered:
10:06 – Does Genesis 6:3 say that a person can only live until 120 years old?
15:57 – When is it appropriate for the Church to use force? I am reading the Syllabus of Errors by Pope Pius IX and he says the Church using force or coercion is not permissible.
23:50 – In Scripture it says that Jesus grew in wisdom and understanding. Was he born with superhuman knowledge or did he progressively grow in this knowledge?
32:08 – What is the Catholic Church’s take on embryo adoption?
42:05 – I started exploring Catholicism a couple months ago. Is there a difference between the seven sorrows rosary and the regular rosary?
46:15 – People say God forgives and forgets. Why is there purgatory, then?
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You’re not Catholic unless you believe in the papacy. Joe Heschmeyer helps us to understand why.
Questions Covered:
05:08 – In Acts, it sounds like Paul is in charge and not Peter. Can you explain this?
09:48 – I have heard that Peter’s denial of Christ was not really a denial, but a denial of who he is becoming in Christ. What do you think of this?
14:40 – How can I respond to people who claim that Pope Francis is saying a bunch of crazy things, for example, that we don’t have to go to Church anymore?
18:21 – I am confused by Pope Francis because he says many things that make it seem like he is socialist or liberal. I want to have no doubt or confusion about him. Can you help me to better understand him?
23:51 – What do you mean by the anti-popes?
29:12 – I am not Catholic. How do you square Jesus saying, “Believe and be baptized,” and Peter saying, “Repent and be baptized”?
35:40 – Isn’t the job of the pope to be pastoral?
40:55 – How did St. Peter end up in Rome?
43:40 – Is the line of Peter broken because there were 3 popes at one time in history?
45:14 – What have you found to be the strongest argument against the papacy, and how do you counter it?
48:13 – In the New Testament, there is no reference to Peter as Pope or popes in general. There is nothing that says, “consult the pope”. Why is this?
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You’re not Catholic unless you believe in the papacy. Joe Heschmeyer helps us to understand why.
Questions Covered:
20:46 – I don’t believe that Peter ever was a pope. He did not have time for that. He was a martyr.
29:20 – I heard that the current Pope is not actually the pope because Pope Emeritus Benedict only resigned from being the Bishop of Rome and not from the papacy. Is this true?
32:38 – In the Scriptural passage when Jesus says to Peter, “Upon this rock, I will build my Church,” my Protestant family claims that Jesus is saying that He Himself is the rock. How can I address this?
43:11 – When did they start calling the Pope “Pope” and was Peter called this? What does Pope mean?
44:30 – How did Peter know that he was going to be a pope and leader? Did he know or was he just trying to figure it out?
48:43 – I don’t think the job of the pope is to make changes in the world, it’s just to keep doctrine the same. What do you think?
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Father Hugh Barbour explains the biblical and medieval roots of the modern devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Is devotion to the Sacred Heart a divine response to an increasingly isolated and lonely modern world?
CK:
Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I am Cy Kellett, our host, and our guest is Father Hugh Barbour, Norbetine priest, former Pryor of St. Michael’s Abbey in Orange County which is building a new church. You should look it up online. Hello, Father.
FHB:
Hello. Hello.
CK:
It’s very nice to be speaking with you in June, a month of many good things inc…
Non-Catholics are welcome to call in with their questions about the Catholic Church today.
Questions Covered:
05:28 – Why do Catholics evangelize Protestants more than non-Christians?
28:44 – Why does the Catholic Church teach that Mary is without sin?
36:37 – I read your book, Behold Your Mother. It made me think that Mary is much more important than I was led to believe. Why would Mary want to listen to all our prayers? I just don’t understand that.
48:00 – Why does the Catholic Church teach that gay couples are part of the culture of death?
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